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Service Description: This layer represents sea turtle strandings from Maine to Virginia for the 2000-20 time period. These data are a subset of the larger dataset maintained by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Sea Turtle Stranding and Salvage Network.

All sea turtles that occur in U.S. waters are listed as either threatened or endangered under the Endangered Species Act. To advance the conservation and recovery of listed sea turtles, each sea turtle recovery plan developed jointly by NOAA Fisheries and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service identifies and highlights the need to maintain an active stranding network. As a result, the Sea Turtle Stranding and Salvage Network (STSSN) was formally established by NOAA Fisheries in 1980 to document strandings of sea turtles along the coastal areas from Maine to Texas and in portions of the U.S. Caribbean.

The STSSN is a cooperative effort comprised of federal, state, and permitted private partners that respond to live and dead stranded turtles, collect scientific data, transport sick and injured turtles to rehabilitation facilities, and help educate the public about sea turtle conservation. The STSSN works to inform causes of morbidity and mortality in sea turtles by responding to and documenting sea turtles in a manner sufficient to inform conservation management and recovery.

NOAA Fisheries maintains a database containing the species, date of initial observation, location of stranding, condition at initial observation, sex, age class, condition and other data fields for all strandings. A subset of these data were supplied by NOAA and processed from tabular to geographic information systems (GIS) point file format by the MARCO Portal and prepared for visualization in partnership with the NOAA Fisheries Greater Atlantic Regional Stranding Coordinator.

PLEASE REFER TO THE METADATA DOCUMENT POSTED ON THE MID-ATLANTIC OCEAN DATA PORTAL FOR FULL METADATA, CAVEATS, USE POLICIES.

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• County Summaries (0)
• Strandings by Season (1)
  • Strandings - Winter (2)
  • Strandings - Spring (3)
  • Strandings - Summer (4)
  • Strandings - Fall (5)
• Strandings by species/group (6)
  • Strandings - Loggerhead sea turtle (7)
  • Strandings - Green sea turtle (8)
  • Strandings - Leatherback sea turtle (9)
  • Strandings - Hawksbill sea turtle (10)
  • Strandings - Kemp's ridley sea turtle (11)
  • Strandings - Unknown (12)
• Strandings by Type (13)

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